NENT gives go ahead to Cryptid
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| 15 February 2019

Stockholm-based production company Dramacorp, founded by Patrick Nebout in a joint venture with Beta Film, has announced its first commission from NENT Group in the form of Cryptid.

The 10 x 22’young-adult (YA) short-form horror series — both NENT Group’s and Dramacorp's first short-form horror project — centres on the idyllic lakeside town of Mörkstad, whose peaceful existence is suddenly shattered by a series of terrifying and unexplainable events. The show, based on an original pitch by graphic novelist Sylvain Runberg, is penned within a writer room with novelist Anna Jakobsson Lund as lead writer.

Daniel di Grado (NENT Group’s Hidden; SVT’s Jordskott; Alena) and David Berron (NENT Group’s Hidden and Black Lake) will direct the series. Executive producers are Dramacorp’s Patrick Nebout (SVT-StudioCanal’s Midnight Sun; TV4-CMore’s upcoming spy-thriller Hamilton), Mia Sohlman (Hamilton; SVT’s Blue Eyes;) and NENT Group’s Fredrik Ljungberg, with Hadis Jabbari (NENT Group’s The Lawyer) producing.

Production on the series starts in August in Finland. the series will premiere exclusively in the Nordic region on Viaplay in early 2020.

“Cryptid is our first foray into short-form production and the horror genre, so we thought we’d aim for another first in the process and create a new genre — Nordic Comic Noir, with a unique tone and look inspired by pop graphic novels,” said Patrick Nebout. “Cryptid is an elevated, sexy, scary coming-of-age thriller with a supernatural twist. We were drawn to it not only because it’s a clever, edgy horror series for a young-adult audience, but because it’s genuinely very different...This is definitively not your typical Nordic Noir, so don’t expect the usual brown-grey shades and look. This show is a very colourful and scary ride.”